Class Asteroidea

Order Spinulosida

Family Echinasteridae

LONGSPINED STAR

Henricia longispina Fisher, 1910

Identification:

5 relatively stout arms. Aboral surface with a coarse mesh-like skeleton bearing radiating clusters of sharp spines. Orange or milky white. To 20 cm (8 in) across.

Range:

Bering Sea to the Sea of Okhotsk and Vancouver Island, BC; 13 to 512 m (45 to 1,680 ft).